A Body Goes Down

Once in a while a man comes along

Even his failures were favorite songs

Oh to have made something so unsurpassed

As certain things fall away some certain things last

A body goes down in the Mississippi waters

Weighted by a beauty, afraid of its light

Notify your holy men, console your sons and daughters

And tell me one more time, what is just, what is right

Chances are good we spread blasphemous lies

Safe to say nobody knew what was inside

Of course there is grace and those halos of pain

Maybe he sang what he came here to sing

A body goes down in the Mississippi waters

Weighted by a beauty, afraid of its light

Notify your holy men, console your sons and daughters

And tell me one more time, what is just, what is right

Speed on to the next world, speed on to the next life

Better I'm sure by far

Orpheus driven, treasures given

Heal the most broken of hearts

Speed on, speed on, speed on